Rashida Jones

It's easy to forget the dark ages — when women died by the thousands and the male-dominated medical profession didn't react with alarm and purpose in trying to figure out why, when geneticists wouldn't roll up their sleeves to tackle something difficult and time-consuming that affected mostly women, when computers took days, weeks and years to process data your laptop can crunch in a flash. "Decoding Annie Parker" is about those dark years — the 1970s and early '80s — when it took women, teams of them, to sort through medical histories, beg for funding and computer time, and reach a conclusion that seems blindingly obvious now: Breast...

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